Places MissBex Wants to Go

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

The world's only known button museum.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A science teacher's dream.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A Bibliophile's Dream.